What It's Like to Go to the Oscars with Jennifer Lawrence, According to Her Best Friend

In a word, it's awesome.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a girl who hasn't, at one point or another, dreamed of attending the Oscars. It's like prom, but for big kids. Except instead of tulle and taffeta, you get to wear a fancy designer gown. And instead of a pimply date wearing a too-big off-the-rack suit, your date is a Hollywood movie star.

This year, Laura Simpson lived out that very dream. Don't recognize the name? That's because she's not famous. Yet, anyway. She just happens to be BFF with a sorta-kinda famous person named Jennifer Lawrence. As Laura Simpson tells it, she "met her seven years ago at an event where we both didn't know a single person. We hit it off over a mutual respect for Chandler Bing, and we've been eating pizza together ever since." And to think all it took was a little chit-chat about Friends over a few slices of pepperoni!

That's how, last weekend, she found herself wearing a fancy designer gown (in this case, Dior) as the date of a Hollywood movie star (in this case, Jennifer Lawrence). Remember when Jen made her grand entrance, nearly broke an ankle, and nearly took down another attendee while trying to stay upright? That's this girl. You don't need to be jealous about it, though, because Laura is the best and wrote an essay about her experience last Sunday night. It's incredibly unsurprising to learn that Jennifer Lawrence's best friend is just as funny as Jennifer Lawrence. "We finally arrive at the red carpet and as we exit the car, my date eats st and uses my freshly done Lauren Conrad updo to break her fall,"** she writes. "The crowd goes wild. There are flashbulbs and people circling yet no one asks if I need any help because unless you are famous at the Oscars, you are completely invisible."

From start to finish, it's hysterical and you should read the whole thing. If you're all, "Oh, but it's so many words and I don't even know this girl and why would I want to read it?" then look no further than this gem: "We can't enjoy ourselves because everyone, whether they know my date or not, has some weird story they just NEED to tell her as they stand in front of me pushing me out of the circle. I get tired of this and decide to follow Bill Murray around the party. At one point he looks in my direction and winks at me while dancing to 'If You Want My Body and You Think I'm Sexy' by Rod Stewart—a moment, I now realize, my whole life had been leading up to."